Front Porch Blues & News

Music, culture, and stories from the Delta and beyond

Senator Roger Wicker to address Teen Substance Abuse

Stonewater Adolescent Recover Center Ribbon Cutting Ceremony with Roger Wicker. Oxford, MS This is encouraging news! United States Senator Roger Wicker to address adolescent substance abuse at the official ribbon-cutting ceremony...
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Jimmy Hughes tunes his dial to 88.1 XRDSfm

Chilly Billy talks about Clarksdalian Jimmy Hughes and XRDS.fm 88.1 Jimmy Hughes made my day! While walking across the intersection of Yazoo and East 2nd Street last Friday, friend Jimmy...
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Delta Blues Museum Birthday Bash – MONDAY at 4!

Delta Blues Museum Birthday Party 38 years old! The Delta Blues Museum Birthday Bash is Monday, January 30th from 4-6pm. You will hear special performances from the Coahoma Community College Choir,...
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KEEP CLARKSDALE RESPONSES from People Who Care

Dog Paw Line. Photo by The Delta Bohemian. Keep Clarksdale Responses Keep Clarksdale Responses from People Who Care. “Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.”...
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Touring Serendipity Connects Clarksdale, Cleveland and Greenwood

Tarquin Hall-Corbett, Red Paden, Danielle Morgan, Carlee Calderon Touring serendipity connects Clarksdale, Cleveland and Greenwood on just another day in the Mississippi Delta, a special place rife with ubiquity—we never...
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Pip Cowan Busking His Way to Mississippi

Pip Cowan busking his way to Mississippi Is it any wonder a fine fella like Pip Cowan from the Land Down Under wants to return to the Mississippi Delta? Clarksdale,...
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How do we KEEP CLARKSDALE and continue to draw folks here?

Visitors on a Delta Bohemian Tour at the Crossroads in Clarksdale. The following thoughts on the status of my hometown bear no reflection on anyone or any entity that I...
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WXXO – XRDS.fm Now On Air in Clarksdale

Founders of WXXO – XRDS.fm Bill Bowker and Charles Evans with Bill’s grandson and musician David Luning WXXO – XRDS.fm now on the air in Clarksdale, the Birthplace of the Blues....
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I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees

Mississippi Delta cotton field ©The Delta Bohemian I Went to the Crossroad: The Redemption of Robert Johnson? I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees. I went to the...
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Delta Business Journal Features Clarksdale Delta Advocate

Delta Business Journal Delta Advocate Madge Howell. Photo by Daniel Vassel Delta Business Journal (DBJ) in their October 2016 issue features a Clarksdalian by Clarksdalians for Clarksdalians and those who love...
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